Around forty thousand Russian emigrants settled in Yugoslavia running away from the terror of the 1917 Revolution. A high percentage of them were writers, artists, musicians and ballet dancers. Their greatest contribution ...

The article gives an overview of the early days of the Institute, then proceeds to explain the development of the research projects, the further education of research members of the Institute and finally the results of the ...

Vlastimir Trajković (b. 1947) is a prominent Serbian composer with a strong inclination
towards subjects from ancient Greek mythology. Among his most important achievements may
be counted Arion – le nuove musiche per ...

The emergence of radically new, avant-garde movements in German music and
throughout Western Europe after WW2 has often been seen as expressing a
strivings to create on a tabula rasa, in order to create distance from the ...

The subject of this paper concerns the consideration of the social and artistic
position of Serbian music within the framework of socialist cultural policies and
the post-socialist culture of Serbia in transition. That ...

The term ‘moderated modernism’ has been current for quite some
time in Serbian music historiography, but there have been only a few attempts
to define it. I shall try to define the term, introduce some of its key ...

Abstract: In this paper we discuss the role of BEMUS festival in commissioning new musical pieces from Serbian composers in the period between 2002 and 2013. We aim to highlight the high and the low points of the practice ...